From:	ams AT ludd DOT luth DOT se (Martin Str|mberg)
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Subject:	Re: FORMAT A: /U crashes BASH and Windows 98
Date:	18 Apr 1999 13:06:15 GMT
Organization:	University of Lulea, Sweden
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Daniel Barker (sokal AT holyrood DOT ed DOT ac DOT uk) wrote:
: Earlier this year there was a thread with subject "bash and format don't
: mix", about problems with FORMAT applied to a write-protected disk under
: BASH.
: 
: My problem is perhaps related to this. I have found BASH crashes, and the
: machine freezes so thoroughly that I can't even re-start with
: CTRL-ALT-DELETE, if I issue the command FORMAT A: /U from a BASH prompt
: under Windows 98. The disks I tried this with were NOT write protected.
: 
: I mention this mainly as a sort of bug report. I can avoid the problem
: easily enough, of course, by running FORMAT from COMMAND rather than BASH. 

Yes, indeed. It does that for me too, although it seems to be the same
kind of sluggishness that happens for me as in my earlier report.

Incidentally, what does "FORMAT /U" do? It isn't reported by "FORMAT
/?".


Right,

							MartinS

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